'pon

• pon

Compare identically formed Swedish på, Norwegian på, Danish på.

’pon

1. Contraction of upon.
   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 12, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:

     So he thought over various plans for relief, and finally hit pon that of professing to be fond of Pain-killer.

• NOP, NPO, Nop, ONP, OPN, nop